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50 Years of ERIC
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Teacher Collective Bargaining in Washington State: Assessing the Internal Validity of Partial Independence Item Response Measures of Contract Restrictiveness. CEDR Working Paper No. 2012 3.0
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Goldhaber, Dan; Lavery, Lesley; Theobald, Roddy; D'Entremont, Dylan; Fang, Yangru – Center for Education Data & Research, 2012
Recent research (Strunk and Reardon forthcoming) applies Partial Independence Item Response (PIIR) models to teacher bargaining agreements in California to calculate the latent restrictiveness of these contracts. Further research (Strunk and Grissom 2010; Strunk forthcoming) tests the external validity of these estimates. Given that much research…
Descriptors: Profiles, Unions, Collective Bargaining, Inferences
My End of the Bargain: Exploring the Influence of Spatial Relationships on the Provisions in Collective Bargaining Agreements. CEDR Working Paper 2012-2
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Goldhaber, Dan; Lavery, Lesley; Theobald, Roddy – Center for Education Data & Research, 2012
A large literature on teacher collective bargaining describes the potential influence of provisions in teacher union contracts, but little is known about the determinants of these provisions. Using a unique dataset of every active teacher collective bargaining agreement in Washington state, we find that the proximity of two districts is a…
Descriptors: Unions, Collective Bargaining, Teacher Associations, Interpersonal Relationship